I don’t think I’ve expressed my hatred towards hippies to you all before, so I’ll do it now. I hate hippies! Now keep in mind I’m referring to hippies now in 2011 or any other time period that wasn’t the 70’s. There unoriginal pot heads that listen to crappy music because they “feel it” when there all doped out. Any music that you can only enjoy when high isn’t good music. And wearing tie-died shirts isn’t “cool”. Back in the day it was revolutionary to wear those colors and they looked like they were alive when you were tripping on LSD. Wearing tie-die is just as bad as all those Goth kids that moped around saying that they weren’t “conformists” when they all dressed and acted alike. If any of you seen someone dressed like a Greaser (The Fonz) with their hair all slicked up and a tight white tee with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve, you would point and laugh. it's the same thing.
With that out of the way I’ll change gears. I love Beatniks. They were the hippies before the hippies. Smoking opium around their lazy poetry circles. Getting nothing done. Wearing all black with bad facial hair. Not giving a crap about anything. Not like hippies with their protests. Sure, I get it, war is bad. But hippies look for any reason to yell slogans and hold signs. Beatniks didn’t care what anyone did. They didn’t vandalize, or do freak-outs, or throw paint on fur coats, or preach their beliefs. When they said that they didn’t care what people thought of them it wasn’t an excuse to dress more outrageous. They didn’t care. And that’s why I love beatniks. I could go on, but I don’t care to.